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I’ve always found this “humans are so stupid” meme a bit hard to fathom. As far as we can tell (so far) humans are by far the most intelligent thing in the universe. By what standard are we “stupid”? It seems to me to be equivalent to saying “blue whales are so small”, just because I can (approximately) imagine a larger animal.


It was a joke, in case you didn't catch it.

In fact all you can reasonably define is survive-ability of a typical organism of a species to define it's success compared to other species. That is the only meaningful comparison that can be made.

Intelligence as we commonly define it is only a tool for survival.




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